Huawei’s Kirin 9050 Pro powers the Mate XT 2 with a claimed 42% performance gain over the Mate XTs. Its Lingxi CPU Hyper-Threading raises peak single-core performance 24% and concurrent multi-core performance 52%. The chip also supports hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing at 50 million rays. Richard Yu unusually introduced the chip in English—perhaps signaling plans for a broader overseas push.